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Alan Dugan

Born	(1923-02-12)February 12, 1923 Brooklyn, New York
Died	September 3, 2003(2003-09-03) (aged 80) Hyannis, Massachusetts
Occupation	Poet

Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003) was an American poet.^[1]^[2]

His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award for Poetry^[3] and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His last volume, entitled Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, was published in 2001^[4] by Seven Stories Press in New York City and won Dugan a second National Book Award.^[5]

Life

Dugan grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and served in World War II, experiences which entered his poetry, though he was not a confessional poet. He lived in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where he was a member of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center.

Dugan's work was published in successive numbered collections under the simple title Poems.

Alan Dugan was married to the artist Judith Shahn, to whom he dedicated each of his books. He died on September 3, 2003, of pneumonia at age 80.^[6]

Dugan received many awards and fellowships for his poetry.

v t e Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1951–1975)
Carl Sandburg (1951) Marianne Moore (1952) Archibald MacLeish (1953) Theodore Roethke (1954) Wallace Stevens (1955) Elizabeth Bishop (1956) Richard Wilbur (1957) Robert Penn Warren (1958) Stanley Kunitz (1959) W. D. Snodgrass (1960) Phyllis McGinley (1961) Alan Dugan (1962) William Carlos Williams (1963) Louis Simpson (1964) John Berryman (1965) Richard Eberhart (1966) Anne Sexton (1967) Anthony Hecht (1968) George Oppen (1969) Richard Howard (1970) William S. Merwin (1971) James Wright (1972) Maxine Kumin (1973) Robert Lowell (1974) Gary Snyder (1975)
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